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035 _a(DE-B1597)550554
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050 0 0 _aHQ1075.5.U6
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072 7 _aSOC032000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJakobsen, Janet R.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Sex Obsession :
_bPerversity and Possibility in American Politics /
_cJanet R. Jakobsen.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aSexual Cultures ;
_v55
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: Why Sex? --
_t1. Because Religion --
_t2. Because Morality, Because Materiality --
_t3. Because the Social --
_t4. Because Stasis --
_tConclusion: Melancholy Utopias --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAbout the Author
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aFinalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesOffers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and powerAmerican politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found Kennedy a younger, more vivacious, and more attractive choice than Nixon. Sexier. The political significance of Kennedy’s telegenic sex appeal is now widely accepted – but taking sexual politics seriously is not. Janet R. Jakobsen examines how, for the last several decades, gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life, marked by a series of widely recognized issues and movements – women’s liberation and gay liberation in the 1960s and ’70s, the AIDS crisis and ACT UP in the ‘80s and ’90s, welfare and immigration “reform” in the ‘90s, wars claiming to “save women” in the 2000s, and battles over health care in the 2010s, to recent demands for reproductive justice, trans liberation, and the explosive exposures of #MeToo.Religion has been wound up in these political struggles, and blamed for not a little of the resistance to meaningful change in America political life. Jakobsen acknowledges that religion is a force to be reckoned with, but decisively breaks with the common sense that religion and sex are the fixed binary of American political life. She instead follows the kaleidoscopic ways in which sexual politics are embedded in social relations of all kinds – not only the intimate relations of love and family with which gender and sex are routinely associated, but also secularism, freedom, race, disability, capitalism, nation and state, housing and the environment.In the midst of these obsessions, Jakobsen’s promiscuous ethical imagination guides us forward. Drawing on examples from collaborative projects among activists, academics and artists, Jakobsen shows that sexual politics can contribute to building justice from the ground up. Gender and sexual relations are practices through which values emerge and communities are made. Sex and desire, gender and embodiment emerge as bases of ethical possibility, breaking political stalemate and opening new possibility.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aGay rights
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aHomosexuality
_xGovernment policy
_xUnited States.
650 0 _aHomosexuality
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
650 0 _aSex role
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWomen's rights
_zUnited States
_xPolitical aspects.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
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653 _aACT UP.
653 _aAIDS Activism.
653 _aAIDS history.
653 _aActivism.
653 _aAffirmative Action.
653 _aAmerican politics.
653 _aAnti-Poverty Policy.
653 _aCriminal Justice.
653 _aCulture Wars.
653 _aDisability Justice.
653 _aDomestic Work.
653 _aEconomic Justice.
653 _aEconomic Value.
653 _aEthics.
653 _aFeminist.
653 _aGay Marriage.
653 _aGender.
653 _aImmigration.
653 _aMass Incarceration.
653 _aMaterial Interests.
653 _aMoral Values.
653 _aPolitical Economy.
653 _aPolitics.
653 _aPublic Policy.
653 _aQueer Politics.
653 _aQueer.
653 _aRace.
653 _aRacism.
653 _aReligion.
653 _aReligious Freedom.
653 _aReproductive Justice.
653 _aRestorative Justice.
653 _aSecularism.
653 _aSex.
653 _aSexual Politics.
653 _aSexuality.
653 _aSocial Justice.
653 _aTransformative Justice.
653 _aTransnational.
653 _aU.S. Supreme Court.
653 _aUniversal Access.
653 _aUniversal Design.
653 _aUtopia.
653 _aViolence.
653 _aVoting Rights.
653 _aWelfare Reform.
653 _aXenophobia.
653 _asexual.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479839421.001.0001
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479839421
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